Ron Tyler

Texas Lithographs

A Century of History in Images

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A stunning and comprehensive collection of lithographs from 1818 to 1900 Texas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 262mm x 262mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 2572g
• ISBN-13: 9781477326084
• ISBN-10: 1477326081
• Artikelnr.: 63662471

Autorenporträt

The author or coauthor of numerous works of visual history, Ron Tyler is the retired director of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth. He formerly served as director of the Texas State Historical Association, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, and editor of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly and The New Handbook of Texas.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: “We Can Read the Pictures” * 1. “Really a Kind of Paradise”: Hispanic and Mexican Texas * 2. “A More Perfect Fac-simile of Things”: The Republic of Texas * 3. “Illustrations of a Cheap Character”: Annexation and War with Mexico * 4. “A Perfect Terra Incognita”: Surveys of Texas * 5. “Pretty Pictures .
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. ‘Candy’ for the Immigrants”: Illustrating the State * 6. “The Dark Corner of the Confederacy”: Civil War and Reconstruction in Texas * 7. “The Enterprise Was Not Properly Appreciated”: The Growth of Lithography in Texas * 8. “The ‘Image Breakers’”: Mending the Reputation * 9. “The truth is Texas is what her railroads have made her” * Epilogue: “Mistaken .
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. for Lithograph Work” * Acknowledgments * Notes * Index